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Metformin treatment of the C9orf72 ALS/FTD mouse: Almost too good for words

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2020
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1 news outlet
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28 X users

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39 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Metformin treatment of the C9orf72 ALS/FTD mouse: Almost too good for words
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2020
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2012363117
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Student > Master 4 10%
Other 3 8%
Professor 3 8%
Other 7 18%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 8%
Neuroscience 3 8%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 12 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2023.
All research outputs
#2,060,050
of 34,400,738 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#25,349
of 118,992 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,078
of 455,918 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#546
of 1,111 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,400,738 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 118,992 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 455,918 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,111 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.